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"With respect to this subject, only the President or his attorneys are authorized to comment", Press Secretary Sean Spicertold the Daily Caller's Kaitlin Collins late Monday night. "I think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel", Ruddy said.

"If Trump fires Mueller he won't have to worry about Congress cause We the People will demand his impeachment/yourfiredmrpresident!" he wrote.

"If there were good cause, I would consider it". Sessions is set to discuss the scope of his recusal from the Russian investigation, any meetings he had with Russian officials as a surrogate of the Trump campaign and the circumstances around the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

"Director Mueller is going to have the full degree of independence that he needs to conduct that investigation appropriately", Rosenstein said. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was asked about newsreports suggesting Trump was mulling letting Mueller go, but said he has not seen evidence he has cause to fire Mueller.

Schiff told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that if Trump fired Mueller, Congress might name its own independent counsel to investigate the case. After responding that he had not, Rosenstein reassured Shaheen of his confidence in the process.

Trump, according toThe Times, has brought up the legal and political implications of firing Mueller, whom he reportedly thinks is "incapable of an impartial investigation".

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Trump was apparently bothered by reports from conservative outlets like Breitbart News linking Mueller to Comey.

Conservative news outlets have been working hard to discredit Mueller in recent days, citing what Fox News' Sean Hannity called his "massive conflict of interest"-a friendship with fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey". "He had a private conversation with the President on his views about all sorts of matters, potentially about the investigation, I don't know".

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivers remarks during an event marking National Missing Children's Day at the Justice Department May 24, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Mueller is overseeing the special counsel investigating the potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation, and whether or not Russian Federation successfully meddled in the 2016 election.